Monday, October 25, 2010

On book snobbery and other things - @PenelopeTrunk | Her writing often makes me smile.

I try not to be a snob. Because I think it just closes doors. For example, I have written before about not being a language snob. If you are, then you stop yourself from learning about language. And being a snob about copyediting perfection is terrible, too — you end up never writing anything because it takes too long. Even career advice snobbery is bad, because people who fail give the best advice. So it's no surprise that I find book snobbery self-destructive as well; when I'm a snob about books, they take over my house.

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